11th century1088: Movable type in Song Dynasty China: The first record of a movable type system is in the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sh ...
1st century1st century: Buttress dam in Roman Empire2nd century132: Seismometer in Han Dynasty China, built by Zhang Heng. It was a large metal urn-shaped instrument which employed either a suspended ...
7th century BCmid-7th century BC: Two-masted ships (foresail) by Etruscans in Italy6th century BCWith the Greco-Roman trispastos ("three-pulley-crane"), the simplest ancient crane, a single man triple ...
Further information: Outline of prehistoric technologyNote that the dates in the Paleolithic era are approximate and refer to the earliest discovered use of an invention, and are likely to change as m ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions.Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often i ...
